There's actually a novelization of the first game that I had when I was a kid. I remember thinking it was pretty cool. The only thing that stands out in my mind though is that the Stage 2 boss, Bomberhead, was said to speak with a New York accent. So there you go.

For me, it was all about that nighttime city vista in the first stage of the sequel. Those seemed like cutting edge graphics at the time.

6-2? Count yourself lucky. I think I only made that last jump in 3-2 without getting smacked by an eagle off that cliff once in my life (where I was immediately wiped out by the boss).

With Dick Tracy and The Shadow added to build the universe and spin off.

Toby Huss. Don't forget Toby Huss. The cast would be very easy to reunite if you can find the alley Stahl is living in.

In some alternate universe (the Zaneverse?), The Phantom is a billlion dollar franchise on its third reboot with Zane executive producing. Slam Evil!

A lot of Grantland's B-team (or maybe its A-team now?) aren't the best writers but a site that doesn't have any sort of snark to a lot of the angles and theses it explores is refreshing.

I'm loathe to defend anything ESPN or Sportcenter related but the internet has basically made highlight shows obsolete. Much like music on MTV.

Yeah, I really enjoyed From Russia with Love. I even liked the bizarre updates like Maria Menounos being a villain of equal standing with Robert Shaw.

Christmas Jones isn't even that bad of a Bond Girl. She's head and shoulders above Brit Eklin's Mary Goodnight in Man with the Golden Gun, for instance.
I'd choose to rewatch both TND and TWINE before Goldeneye.

Barbara Broccoli doesn't speak English well?

The original Goldeneye was always overrated, in my view, if judging by a single player experience. It wasn't until the PS2 era of technology that the more exotic aspects (girls, cars, fully realized foreign cities) of the Bond franchise could be brought into games. Running through gray corridors was not a very good…

Yeah, I saw OHMSS after the critical reappraisals started, and its probably one of my least favorite Bond movies. Rigg's Tracy was a great character and the ending is very gutsy but other than that, its not a well paced film especially by Bond standards. Although, its strangeness is probably why its won over the…

If he had said Diamonds are Forever Connery or Never Say Never Again Connery, I'd be on board.

I thought he was pretty Bond-y the first 2/3's of Skyfall. The last 1/3, however, was the least Bondy-y he's ever been.

Auric Goldfinger would love all that gold color grading.

If "fridging" means what I think it means, and you're questioning whether or not it happens, I don't think you've seen too many Bond movies

Ugh, the jokes! This book had the worst sense of humor I've ever seen in a novel. Jokes about disco music are much more outtdated and irrelevant than disco itself.

Also, to be fair, he never intended for it to be a wide commercial release. However, how it found a following is a mystery to me.

Two Books for the Trash.